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Ganza, also known as Ganzo or Koma, is an Omotic language spoken in the Al Kurumik District of the Blue Nile (state) in Sudan and in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, specifically in the village districts of Penishuba and Yabeldigis.

Ganza
غانزا
Native to	Sudan, Ethiopia
Region	Asosa Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz Region
Native speakers	3,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic Mao Ganza
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gza
Glottolog	ganz1246
ELP	Ganza

It also goes by the names Ganzo, Gwami, Koma, and Koma-Ganza.[2]

Phonology

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ	ʔ̃
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ		kʼ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		s	ʃ		h
	ejective		sʼ
	voiced		z
Approximant			l	j	w
Trill			r

Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.[3]^: 106

Vowels[3]^: 107

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a

Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead, Ganza has predictable utterance-final vowel lengthening and a set of monosyllabic words with double vowels.[3]^: 109

References

• Smolders, Joshua. 2015. A Wordlist of Ganza. Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia

Notes

External links

• Link to ELAR documentation of Ganza and Ganza verb mophology

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